Some of this meat they smoked for its better preservation, but most of it was eaten fresh.

No record was kept of the amount of fish consumed by the party; but they were obliged at times to make fish their sole article of diet.

Late in February they were visited by Comowool, the principal Clatsop chief, who brought them a sturgeon and quantities of a small fish which had just begun to make its appearance in the Columbia.

This was known as the anchovy, but oftener as the candle-fish; it is so fat that it may be burned like a torch, or candle.

The journal speaks of Comowool as "by far the most friendly and decent savage we have seen in this neighborhood.".